Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.

Police searched venues across the Russian capital, including a nightclub, a male sauna, and a bar that hosted LGBTQ+ parties, under the pretext of a drug raid, local media reported.

Eyewitnesses told journalists that clubgoers’ documents were checked and photographed by the security services. They also said that managers had been able to warn patrons before police arrived.

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    1 year ago

    using term ‘communist’ in context of progressive far-left socialism

    Really?! I made a ridiculously tongue-in-cheek comment, but of all the vile implications of blaming a single minority group for destroying the world, this was your rebuttal?

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      It wasn’t a rebuttal, I’m being pedantic about a technical term.

      The joke about Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism is funny to English-speaking audience. People who actually experienced communism know there’s nothing fully automated, luxury, or gay about it. There was some Space, but it was done more to show’em dirty capitalists than to perform big scientific discoveries, and capitalists didn’t care all that much about communists’ posturing, it was more about science.